General mining

General mining

General mining related terms and definitions in minerals and related activities.

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General mining

A procedure used in seismic reflection where reflection times from all traces, or sometimes alternate traces, are plotted at the reflecting point positions (midway between 3343 shot and detector). ...

Belgian process

Mining; General mining

A process (no longer used) to smelt zinc in which roasted zinc ore is mixed with a reducing material, such as coal or coke, placed in cylindrical retorts, and heated in a furnace, such that the ...

Lohmannizing

Mining; General mining

A process by which a protective zinc coating is amalgamated to a base-metal sheet.

Perosa process

Mining; General mining

A process by which beryllium is extracted from beryl.

briquetting

Mining; General mining

A process by which coke breeze, coal dust, iron ore, or any other pulverized mineral is bound together into briquettes, under pressure, with or without a binding agent such as asphalt, and thus made ...

Brackelsberg process

Mining; General mining

A process by which fine ores are moistened with water to which a binding medium is added, and the wet mass, without any heating, is rotated in a drum until it forms into spherical lumps of varying ...